Strainer.



G. A. OTT.

STRMNER.

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Patented G. 29. 1918.

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illllITEI) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTUS A. OTT, 0F BUCYRUS, OHIO.

STRAINER.

Application filed June 3,1918.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTUs A. Orr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bueyrus, in the county of Crawford and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Strainer, of which the following is a specitication.

This invention relates to strainers for use in connection with down spouts or conductor pipes. ete.. especially where connected to cisterns` one ot the ob]eets of the invention be ing to provide ay device of this character which can be attached readily to a down spout and can be quickly adjusted to direct water either into a cistern connected to the device, or to an overflow drain. there being means for straining the water when conducted in either direction.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which can be cleaned readily of all accumulated material on the separating screen.

A still further object is to provide means whereby the strainer can be thawed out, should water freeze therein.

Vt' ith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists ot' certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims, it being understood that various changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying ferred form of the invention has been In said drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device.

Fig. 2 is a central vertical section therethrough, the down spout, guide pipe, and operating means being shown in elevation.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3, Fig. 2.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 designates a casing, preferably rectangular, as shown, and provided in its bottom with a central outlet opening 2 eX- tending from front to rear thereof, While at each side of this central opening and eX- tending partly across the bottom, is an outlet opening having a sleeve 3 extending therefrom, said openings being indicated at l and 5 respectively. One of the sleeves is adapted to be connected to a cistern while drawings the preshown.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29, 1918.

Serial No. 238.000.

the other is to be connected to an overtiow drain. An inclined spout C is extended fon wardly and downwardly from the back end of the central opening Q and has side flanges as shown at 7. This spout serves to direct solid matter forwardly from the filter after it has been separated from the water. ze; hereinafter explained.

Flanges S extend upwardly from the sides of the opening and located close to and parallel with the upper edges of the iianges are supporting rods tl. Segnicntal plates lll are, fitted in the casing l against the 'lront and back walls thereof. the lower or small ends of the plates being so shaped as to pro ject into the space between the flanges S and to rest on the rods 9. Screens ll connect the edges of the opposed plates 10 and diverge upwardly, the lower ends of the screens` forming aprons l2 adapted to extend over and between the flanges S.

The casing l has a removable cover 121 provided with a central stationary sleeve llV having a slot 1.3 extending half way thcre around, there being notches lli in the louer edge of the slot at the ends thereof. Mounted for rotation in this sleeve is a tube 17 the upper end of which terminates below the upper end of thc sleeve l L while its lower end forms au elbow located between the upper ends of the screens. piu 1S is ex tended radially from this tube 1T and through the slot 15 and serves to hold the tube and sleeve assembled and also as a means whereby the tube can be rotated through 180o so as to discharge through the elbow against either screen 11, \Vhen the pin 18 is at either limit of its movement it rests within the adjacent notch 16.

The. upper end of the sleeve 14 is inturned as at 19 to form a seat for a tubular coupling section 2O which projects loosely into the tube 1T and has a spout E20 extending from the wall thereof into which hot water may be poured when it is desired to thaw ice formed within the screening device. The down spout or conductor pipe Q1 is to be connected to the section 20.

It is thought that the operation of the device will be obvious. Then the cistern is to loe filled the tube 17 is rotated to one extreme position so as to direct water against the screen 11 overhanging the opening 4 or 5 opening into the eistern. After the eistern has been filled the tube can be rotated Sil ill!

the "Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, Il. C. 

